Fat Footer Moves Forward

March 29, 2011

I recently talked about doing a Fat Footer on our website. We got the comps back from New City and they look great! Also, I got the XML working for the Google Analytics “Popular Today” feature. I used the GA CFC from RIA Forge by Pete Alexandrou, and it worked perfect. I was able to [...]

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Fat Footer

March 4, 2011

We are looking at adding a fat footer to roanoke.edu My plan is to add the following content: About the college section, (this is something that I have wanted to add for years) Full address, and links to maps, directions and mobile Admissions phone, e-mail and top links “Popular Today” links from our Google analytics [...]

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Xitracs For Reaccreditation (SACS)

March 1, 2011

Roanoke recently moved our accreditation compliance report out of our internal CMS and over into Concord USA’s Xitracs Accreditation Management System. Their system is cloud based, and handles all the perilous requirements of the compliance audit report that we needed. Notable features include: Roles based management Flexible output options (zip, pdf, website, single file website). [...]

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Custom Kbox Reports Using Coldfusion

October 11, 2010

This Fall we implement the Kace Kbox appliance for helpdesk support calls. While we have been pleased with the product, the reporting did not meet all of our needs. We were constrained by Kbox’s out of the box reporting solutions because they did not allow us to enter an arbitrary date. Most of the the [...]

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Custom 301 Redirects in Ingeniux CMS 7.0

August 5, 2010

We recently upgraded to Ingeniux version 7.0 and one of the more exciting features is the ability to do Custom 301 Redirects from inside the CMS. Now you can create “friendly URLs.” It’s a little confusing at first, I have created this video to help get you started: Custom 301 Redirects in Ingenix 7.0 Here [...]

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Integrating Your WordPress Blog with Ingeniux CMS

June 3, 2010

We have been working on making several updates to our homepage to make it more “social media” aware. We have integrated Facebook, added links to all our social media sites, and made a few other tweaks. Our final step was to add stories from the RC News Blog to the the “Campus News” section of [...]

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Adding Facebook Status to your homepage using Ingeniux

May 10, 2010

Step 1: Grab your status feed as a JSON Object: http://graph.facebook.com/{YourFacebookID}/feed Make sure you find your Facebook ID and replace it in the URL Above. Step 2: We used some Coldfusion magic to parse the JSON to XML, you can see below what the result is. We choose to strip out all the unnecessary data [...]

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Video on the homepage

May 10, 2010

We just launched a new look on the homepage by replacing our large image/flash area with a new video flash piece.  I’m really pleased with the way it turned out.  The concept and design was done in house and then our friends at New City helped us with some tweaks and built it for us.  [...]

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Social Media on the Homepage, Part 2

April 28, 2010

Recently I blogged about how other Virginia colleges were using Social Media on their homepages, since then we have been trying to figure out the best way to get social media on the Roanoke College homepage. After doing some internal mock-ups and and asking New City (our design partners) to do some mock-ups, we came [...]

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Helpful jQuery Tricks for Everyday Tasks

April 5, 2010

1. Toggling a checkbox’s value: $(“:checkbox”).attr(“checked”,$(this).attr(“checked”)); This code simply sets the “checked” attribute of the checkbox to be the opposite of whatever it’s current value is. Good for changing the value of multiple checkboxes at once or changing a checkbox on an action other than the click event. 2. Chaining Event Handlers jQuery’s ability to [...]

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